Easterhay said:

Dick Cheney compared himself to Vader? What a creep.

Whilst I think some of the changes wrought on the films seem to have been experimental (ie let's see what this would look like) rather than carefully thought-through and carefully executed (ergo, I have nothing against Hayden as Anakin's ghost but it was clearly a hasty add-on and as for Jabba in A New Hope, well, when will they get that scene right?) I am largely in favour of the the revisions made.

Look, it's only really the fans of the original originals who are hacked off with this. Everyone else accepts the Star Wars films as they are just fine.

Oh no, I quite enjoy alternate edits of films. I like the various edits available of Blade Runner, for example, and like most people here, I find what Adywan is doing endlessly impressive and entertaining.

What I don't enjoy is that Lucas is trying to make his (very much flawed) alternate edits replace the originals. I think the originals should be respected enough that they be restored and packaged with any editing or SFX experiments Lucasfilm feels like releasing.

Just a little respect for history is all I'm asking. Other directors have had the good moral character to do it, I just want to see the same from Lucas.